I’ll just encourage you to be careful and really sweat the details behind this line of thought. Extracting natural gas, particularly by fracking, and transporting it through much of the infrastructure now in existence, produce methane emissions that are 80 to 86 times more effective than CO2 at warming the atmosphere, and that the IPCC identified as the single biggest priority over the short term. We won’t get those reductions by finding exotic new uses for gas. Similarly, there are production impacts for crude oil — tailings ponds, downstream cancer clusters — that go beyond greenhouse gas emissions, and that the industry has too often been happy to greenwash away or bury in politics rather than addressing.

If the primary goal is to sustain an industry entering its sunset, then sure, new products are part of the answer. If the main priority and the wider, vastly more urgent context is to drive down emissions quickly in an era of climate chaos, let’s talk about real reductions rather than demonstrably false promises for 2050. Get that right. Then let’s talk about new product lines.